Sentences with phrase «who pioneered this technique»

News that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has cut off funding for Mark Hughes, a geneticist who pioneered a technique for screening for mutations in the DNA of a single cell, has dismayed Hughes's colleagues.

Many police departments now maintain frequently updated maps of high - crime areas to more effectively deploy foot patrols «putting cops on the dots,» as William Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department who pioneered the technique in New York City in the early 1990s, likes to say.

Ever an example of true humility, Fama gives tremendous credit to his predecessors and his contemporaries such as Michael Jensen who pioneered the technique of performance evaluation (measuring additional return after accounting for risk exposure) that is still used today.

Not exact matches

Meet the doctor who helped pioneer the technique for the world's first three - person baby.

The approach was based on a technique pioneered at Cambridge University by data scientists who claimed it could reveal more about a person than even their parents or romantic partners knew.

But imaging neuroscientist Karl Friston of University College London, who helped pioneer the VBM technique, says gray matter shrinkage is not necessarily a bad thing.

If you just bend it a bit, light spills out,» says David Payne of the University of Southampton, UK, who pioneered many of the fibre - optic techniques used today.

Jockers developed his techniques at Stanford University in California, where he worked with literature researcher Franco Moretti, who pioneered the use of automated large - scale analyses of digitised texts, a process he calls «distant reading».

«We can learn an awful lot about early development through these investigations,» says Robert Edwards, the embryologist who pioneered the «test - tube baby» technique of in vitro fertilisation.

The survey is «a very nice way of doing things,» says Chuck Steidel of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who pioneered the color selection survey technique.

«It's a fascinating paper,» says Sandy Dasgupta, a chemist at the University of Texas, Arlington, who pioneered an environmentally friendly, ice - based version of a commonly used technique for separating the compounds in complex mixtures, called ice chromatography.

We are concerned that a public outcry about such an ethical breach could hinder a promising area of therapeutic development,» write Lanphier and his colleagues, who include Fyodor Urnov, a pioneer in gene - editing techniques and scientist at Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California.

For more on the technique and the researchers who pioneered it, see the story in the 19 April issue of Science.

Moore vividly re-creates the life of this Scottish pioneer, who was noted not only for his innovative surgical techniques but also for his investigations into organ transplantation (he implanted a cock's testicle into a hen's belly) and animal dissection (he carved up a giraffe and several whales).

Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford University professor who worked with Boyden to pioneer the technique, was also honored with one of the life sciences prizes.

And finally, the Elliot crater is named after the astronomer James Elliot, who discovered the rings around Uranus and pioneered new techniques to study Solar System bodies.

Among the authors of the new paper is one of the pioneers of the CRISPR technique, Feng Zhang — who is here for the summit.

The same researchers who pioneered the use of a quantum mechanical effect to convert heat into electricity have figured out how to make their technique work in a form more suitable to industry.

Running approximately two - and - a-half minutes, the single's ominous guitar riffs have been widely cited as early examples of the power chord technique, a rock»n' roll staple beloved by musicians as diverse as The Who's Pete Townsend and punk pioneers The Ramones.

Paul J. Dougherty, M.D. is an internationally renowned refractive surgeon who has helped pioneer many of today's vision correction techniques.

Peter Voulkos was indisputably a pioneer who changed the dynamic of ceramics: both its look as well as its time honored techniques.

Some painters who effectively used spray painting techniques include Jules Olitski, who was a pioneer in his spray technique that covered his large paintings with layer after layer of different colors, often gradually changing hue and value in subtle progression.

The show will introduce the Spanish public to the contemporary works of this group of pioneers in Mali who use this traditional technique to make works of contemporary art.

Textile artist and author India Flint, who is from the Deep South of Australia, is a pioneer in ecologically sustainable plant dyeing techniques.

Entitled Sunset, Sunrise it draws attention to this under - recognised female artist, now in her early 90s, who has been a pioneer in merging traditional Persian techniques with contemporary abstraction.

JoAnne Northrup is dedicated to bringing artists who use pioneering techniques and inventive materials into the mainstream conversation about contemporary art.

Organised at Almine Rech Gallery by the artist DeWain Valentine, «Plastic Show» is presenting a series of works by five Californian artists (Mary Corse (b. 1945), Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Craig Kauffman (1932 — 2010), John McCracken (1934 — 2011), and DeWain Valentine (b. 1936)-RRB- who have been investigating the potential of plastic (synthetically produced resins) in art:» Known for their pioneering work with various synthetic resins and synthetic polymers during the 1960s and «70s, these artists are today recognized not only for their active roles in the development of plastics as a newly discovered medium in art, but also for their sophisticated techniques and at times even quasi-acrobatic prowess required to shape them into the seamless, translucent, luscious volumes.»

She describes her work as «being physical explorations into thinking, feeling, communicating and relating» and is influenced by the pioneering work of Melanie Klein (1882 — 1960), the Austrian - born British psychologist who advanced the field of child psychology by devising therapeutic techniques where children were invited to experiment and play with materials, asserting the importance of non-linguistic (i.e. Freudian) responses to our relationship with the world.

Today we'll explore the work of two Goldman Prize winners who have pioneered innovative models for protecting water and other natural resources using a combination of traditional techniques and modern conservation methods.

Along the way, Rebecca also meets Ben and Charlotte Hollins - the brother and sister team who now run the innovative Fordhall Farm in Shropshire - and talks about their nature - based no - till pasture system; she talks with peak oil experts Richard Heinberg and Colin Campbell; visits Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust and explores the small holding of Chris and Lynn Dixon - who have pioneered their low input, biodiverse permaculture - based land management techniques in the hills of Wales for years.

This program is based on research and the proven techniques of therapy are adapted by Dr. Stephanie Covington who is a pioneer in the field of addiction, trauma and the psychosocial development of women.